Question For Phil And Others, Gopro Camera?

[LittleRedFisherman]

Like some of you on here, I like to video stuff I do in the outdoors, and at work (farm) from time to time. So the other night I ordered a Gopro Hero2 outdoor edition. I see Phil uses one alot, and they look great. I was just curious what your favorite settings are when using these to video, like fishing or hunting. Tried it out yesterday out in the yard with the kids, pretty neat camera. I noticed it has a really wide angle lense setting on 170, which is what I had it on yesterday, any of you narrow it down or run it there? Thanks for any insight!!

[Phil Lilley]

You can narrow it down a bit but it's generally a very wide angle camera. It doesn't do real well when shooting distances. But you can hold it real close to something or someone and get a good shot. Play around with it, different settings and see what it'll do. I haven't messed around the with the settings enough to tell you what you'd like.

Have fun with it!

[LittleRedFisherman]

Thanks! I played with it a little more this evening when I got in, I noticed on the medium camera angle it doens't get the fisheye effect like it does on 170, i think medium is 130, which is still pretty wide, may try it there first time I use it. Doing a timelapse video of the sunset as we speak out on the deck.

[ollie]

Love mine! I normally just shoot video in the lower settings for ease of downloads. If you shoot in the higher formats it wiil take longer on an older computer like mine! There are programs out there to somewhat ease the wide angle shot. The only complaint I have about mine is trying to shoot distance for something. Forget about that! Close video and still shots are great, but nothing out past 20 yards max. Then the shot gets lost with everything else. Still like mine for the size and ease of carry. Holds a lot of pics and short movies though. Check out this website. I found a LOT of info on this site about the camera and would recommend anyone who wants to buy one look at this site first.

http://www.eyeofmineactioncameras.com/

[LittleRedFisherman]

Thanks ollie, I'll be checking that out! I may still take my other one as well when I want to zoom in on some scenery. I played around with the timelapse I took awhile ago, I use pinnacle studio 14, pretty good editing software.